Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (2006) by Gary L. Roberts
Exhaustive account.
Contains many details that I had not read before. For example, the reason that Doc left Georgia may have been his "indiscriminate killing of several negroes."
Doc and his mother died of tuberculosis, and the book shows what a terrible disease it is.
There remain many questions about Doc's life. A lot of the correspondence was destroyed, either intentionally or inadvertently. The author hopes that more letters will be found that fill in some of the blanks.
Doc was a larger than life character, and a very complicated individual.
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